"When the mass media advertise themselves, they affirm that they arrive first with the news or that they tell what others are silent about. Instead, they pay little attention to an element that is very present today: the trust they generate in readers. Based on ongoing academic research on news circulation patterns, this column reports on a major crisis of confidence experienced by the traditional media (newspapers and television channels [from Chile], mainly) since [the social outbreak] of Oct. 18, 2019."
